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"We knew the Scarlets are a quality side and they like to play nice style of rugby. In the first half we didn't have much ball and turned it over quite a lot. I think we had 35 per cent possession at half-time so it certainly felt that Scarlets had us on the ropes and were giving it to us."

Murphy said he hoped his side could turn that round after the break but those ambitions were quickly dashed.

"So to be 12-0 down I was actually reasonably happy with in that I felt we had weathered quite a lot of Scarlets attacks," he said.

"We had lost a lot of collisions and Scarlets were more up for it physically. So at half-time we talked about it and we spoke about being a little more physical and holding on to the ball but we went back out, kicked the ball back to them, gave away a couple of silly penalties and Scarlets drove us over in the corner and scored a really nice try.

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"They just held on to the ball for a lot of phases and we didn't have a lot to say in response. It wasn't until 10-15 minutes from the end when we got a little bit of quick ball and our breakdown sorted out that we managed to look anywhere near potent."